# itext-java
**Repository Path**: nbedk/itext-java
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: itext-java
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- **Default Branch**: develop
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- **Created**: 2024-12-26
- **Last Updated**: 2024-12-26
## Categories & Tags
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## README
[](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itext-core)
[](https://github.com/itext/itext7/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
[](https://github.com/itext/itext7/releases/latest)
iText Core/Community is a high-performance, battle-tested library that allows you to create, adapt,
inspect and maintain PDF documents, allowing you to add PDF
functionality to your software projects with ease. It is also available for .[NET][itext7net] (C#).
### The key features of iText Core/Community are:
* Core library:
* PDF creation with the use of our layout engine
* PDF manipulation, e.g. merging multiple PDFs into one, adding new content, ...
* PDF digital signing
* PDF form creation and manipulation
* Working with PDF/A documents
* Working with PDF/UA documents
* FIPS-compliant cryptography
* Barcode generation
* SVG support
* [Addons:][all products]
* Converting XML/HTML & CSS to PDF [repo][pdfhtml], [info][pdfhtmlproduct]
* Redacting sensitive information in PDF documents [repo][pdfsweep], [info][pdfsweepproduct]
* Support for international character sets (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Thai, ...) [info][calligraph]
* Optimize PDF documents for reduced file size, and increased performance [info][optimizer]
* Flattening XFA documents [info][xfa]
* PDF debugging [repo][rups], [info][rupsproduct]
Want to discover what's possible? Head over to our [Demo Lab](https://itextpdf.com/demos)! It contains a collection of
demo applications ready to use online!
### Getting started
The easiest way to get started is to use Maven, just add the following entries to your pom.xml file:
```html
REPLACE_WITH_DESIRED_ITEXT_VERSION
com.itextpdf
itext-core
${itext.version}
pom
com.itextpdf
bouncy-castle-adapter
${itext.version}
```
For more advanced use cases, please refer to
the [Installation guidelines](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/installation-guidelines).
You can also [build iText Community from source][building].
### Hello PDF!
The following example shows how easy it is to create a simple PDF document:
```java
package com.itextpdf.hellopdf;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.layout.Document;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Paragraph;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
public class HelloPdfApp {
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
try (Document document = new Document(new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter("./hello-pdf.pdf")))) {
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello PDF!"));
}
}
}
```
### Examples
This is a small subset of examples to get you started. For more advanced examples, refer to our [Knowledge Base](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/examples) or the following links:
[Examples repo](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples), [Signing examples](https://github.com/itext/i7js-signing-examples).
Some of the output PDF files will be incorrectly displayed by the GitHub previewer, so be sure to download them to see the correct
results.
| Description | Link |
|--------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Basic layout** | |
| Change text properties | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/layout/ParagraphTextWithStyle.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/layout/cmp_paragraphTextWithStyle.pdf) |
| Creating a simple table | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/tables/SimpleTable9.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/tables/cmp_simple_table9.pdf) |
| Add an image to a PDF document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/images/MultipleImages.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/images/cmp_multiple_images.pdf) |
| Create a list | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/objects/NestedLists.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/objects/cmp_nested_list.pdf) |
| Add a watermark | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/events/Watermarking.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/events/cmp_watermarkings.pdf) |
| Add links to navigate within a document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/annotations/AddLinkAnnotation5.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/annotations/cmp_add_link_annotation5.pdf) |
| Create a popup annotation | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/annotations/MovePopup.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/annotations/cmp_move_popup.pdf) |
| Change font | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/layout/ParagraphTextWithStyle.java) |
| Add form fields | [Java](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/examples/forms-in-itext-core-8-0-0) |
| |
| **General document settings** | |
| Change page size and margin | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/layout/PageSizeAndMargins.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/layout/cmp_pageSizeAndMargins.pdf) |
| Write PDF to byte array instead of to disk | [Java](https://stackoverflow.com/a/67411657/10015628) |
| Change page rotation | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/events/PageRotation.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/events/cmp_page_rotation.pdf) |
| Add header and footer | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/events/TextFooter.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/events/cmp_text_footer.pdf) |
| Merge documents | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/merge/AddCover1.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/merge/cmp_add_cover.pdf) |
| Flatten annotations | [Java](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/examples/high-level-annotation-flattening) |
|
| |
| **PDF/UA, PDF/A** | |
| Create PDF/UA document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfua/PdfUA.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/pdfua/cmp_pdf_ua.pdf) |
| Create PDF/A-3 document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfa/PdfA3.java) |
| Create PDF/A-4 document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfa/PdfA4.java) |
| Create WTPDF document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/pdfua/Wtpdf.java) |
| Create ZUGFeRD/Factur-X document | [Java](https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/zugferd/BasicSample.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/itext-publications-examples-java/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/zugferd/cmp_invoice_with_zugferd.pdf)|
|
| |
| **FIPS** | |
| Enable FIPS | [Java](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/releases/release-itext-core-8-0-0/breaking-changes-for-itext-core-8-0-0/bouncy-castle-changes) |
| FIPS SHA3 example | [Java](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/examples/fips-sha3-examples-for-itext-core-8-0-0) |
|
| |
| **Convert HTML and CSS to PDF** | [Link to repo](https://github.com/itext/i7j-pdfhtml) |
| Convert simple HTML doc to PDF | [Java](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/ebooks/itext-7-converting-html-to-pdf-with-pdfhtml) |
|
| |
| **Secure redaction of content** | [Link to repo](https://github.com/itext/i7j-pdfsweep) |
| Redacting content | [Java](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/examples/removing-content-with-pdfsweep) |
| Redact based on regex | [Java](https://itextpdf.com/products/pdf-redaction-pdfsweep) |
|
| |
| **Support complex writing systems** | [Link to docs](https://itextpdf.com/products/pdfcalligraph) |
| Add Arabic text | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/typography/arabic/ArabicWordSpacing.java), [PDF](https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/master/cmpfiles/sandbox/typography/cmp_ArabicWordSpacing.pdf) |
|
| |
| **Optimizing PDFs** | [Link to docs](https://itextpdf.com/products/compress-pdf-pdfoptimizer) |
| Reduce size of PDF | [Java](https://itextpdf.com/products/compress-pdf-pdfoptimizer) |
|
| |
| **XFA flattening** | [Link to docs](https://itextpdf.com/products/flatten-pdf-pdfxfa) |
| Flatten an XFA document | [Java](https://itextpdf.com/products/flatten-pdf-pdfxfa) |
|
| |
| **RUPS** | [Link to repo](https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups) |
| Debug a PDF | [Java](https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups/releases/latest) |
### FAQs, tutorials, etc. ###
Check out the [iText Knowledge Base](https://kb.itextpdf.com) for the [iText Jump-start tutorial](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/ebooks/itext-jump-start-tutorial-for-java) and other tutorials, [FAQs](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/faq) and more. For specific information and examples relating to digital signatures and iText, make sure to check the [Digital Signatures Hub](https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/digital-signatures-hub).
Many common questions have already been answered
on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/itext+itext7), so make sure to also check there.
### Contributing
Many people have contributed to **iText Core/Community** over the years. If you've found a bug, a mistake in documentation, or have a hot new feature you want to implement, we welcome your contributions.
Small changes or fixes can be submitted as a [Pull Request](https://github.com/itext/itext7/pulls), while for major changes we request you contact us at community@apryse.com so we can better coordinate our efforts and prevent duplication of work.
Please read our [Contribution Guidelines][contributing] for details on code submissions, coding rules, and more.
### Licensing
**iText** is dual licensed as [AGPL][agpl]/[Commercial software][sales].
AGPL is a free/open-source software license, however, this doesn't mean the software is [gratis][gratis]!
The AGPL is a copyleft license, which means that any derivative work must also be licensed under the same terms. If you’re using iText in software or a service which cannot comply with the AGPL terms, we have a commercial license available that exempts you from such obligations.
Contact [Sales] for more info.
[agpl]: LICENSE.md
[building]: BUILDING.md
[contributing]: CONTRIBUTING.md
[layoutMd]: layout/README.md
[itext]: https://itextpdf.com/
[github]: https://github.com/itext/itext7
[latest]: https://github.com/itext/itext7/releases/latest
[sales]: https://itextpdf.com/sales
[gratis]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
[rups]: https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups
[pdfhtml]: https://github.com/itext/i7j-pdfhtml
[pdfsweep]: https://github.com/itext/i7j-pdfsweep
[itext7net]: https://github.com/itext/itext7-dotnet
[pdfsweepproduct]: https://itextpdf.com/products/pdf-redaction-pdfsweep
[optimizer]: https://itextpdf.com/products/compress-pdf-pdfoptimizer
[all products]: https://itextpdf.com/products
[pdfhtmlproduct]: https://itextpdf.com/products/itext-pdf-html
[xfa]: https://itextpdf.com/products/flatten-pdf-pdfxfa
[rupsproduct]: https://itextpdf.com/products/rups
[calligraph]: https://itextpdf.com/products/pdfcalligraph